TDI Advanced Nitrox and Deco Procedures

[FreediveWI]

Sounds like you guys had a good time.

It's interesting how you liked the DIR stuff once you tired it. I must admit to being a huge stroke at one point in time, but changed my gear because I was looking for a better way. Every time I tried another one of the "DIR ideas" it just worked better than anything else I had done, or seen, before.

Most people who bash DIR have never dove it. They just look at it and decided it's not for them. Once you actually try it, and see the results on video , you can become a convert very easily.

I would double up the steel tanks and use your 80 as a stage. Sure 40's are nice and small, but an 80 let's you get a couple of nice deco dives out of a single tank.

When your swimming you really don't feel much of a difference. I've used up to three 80's, plus my doubles, at a time and have felt very comfortable. Another friend has dove with up to eight 80's, plus doubles, and could mangage without much of a problem- he did this while doing a "clean up" dive on a deep survey.

As long as they are standard aluminum tanks, and you keep them all stacked up under your left arm, they cause no extra drag.

Are you taking the DIR-F class this fall?

Jon